Agenda

Introduction and Names

Noisebridge is a 501c3 nonprofit that provides a space for creation, collaboration, and learning about technology and creative projects. Noisebridge provides space, power tools, and infrastructure to help the public learn new skills and create cool things. Noisebridge continues to exist through and depends entirely on membership fees and donations. Our code of conduct is 'Be excellent to each other'."

Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to describemembership, and the application process.

Zephyr explains.

Being a member of Noisebridge is not like being a member of a gym or your local chess club. Anyone can come to Noisebridge to hack and learn: you don't need to be a member for that. At Noisebridge, membership is something different: it means taking responsibility and committing to help to maintain, improve, and govern Noisebridge. As a member of Noisebridge, you don't just come here to hack and learn, you actively work to improve what you see around you, help to deal with problems, and make this community better than it is today.

If you want to show your commitment to Noisebridge and the community here without becoming a capital-M-Member, consider being a Noisebridge associate. Associates pay their dues to the treasurer just like members, use the space just like members, and are valued participants in the community just like members. The difference is that associate membership doesn't involve consensus: there's no need to go through consensus to become an associate, but associates don't get to block consensus either.

Read off any names from the binder for the past month. Write a check on every open application.

Anyone eligible to join this week should

introduce themselves,

answer any questions members may have for them, then

leave the area in search of gifts (traditionally beer and a lime, or cookies) for the rest of the group.

The rest of the meeting should reach consensus on whether they may join.

Consensus items

Sleeping problem:
Leif suggest a Japanese Sleeping Pods. So we can find the frequent sleepers, and
tell them, that they can't live here.
Eric talks about people sleeping at 3am and 12am, a totally different crowd at the night. But nobody
helps Eric or others people enforce the sleeping rule.
Sleepers are telling sleepers not to sleep in the space.
Sleeping hours move to the daytime too. Starts in the afternoon.

Rayc: Mediate after the meeting.

Music: A 40 minute open music jam, includes a variety of instruments, you have to built what you play.
Basically, allow noise jamming once a week in the space. Open to discussion for the time period.
Somebody wants a parade to append to this live jam. People would be working on their instruments on their
own time. The event will be posted to noisebridge-discuss.

Proposals from last week

None

Proposals for next week

None

Discussion Items

If an item of discussion drags on too long, further discussion may be postponed until after the meeting ends.

During discussion, it is not necessary to write down exact what each person says. Record the topics of discussion, and any items of consensus or controversy here. Detailed descriptions of the conversation should go on the discuss page for this meeting.

Missing, stole stuff:

Most stuff is stolen in the middle of the night, and it's related to the people that sleep late night.

To eliminate the problem of unwelcome individuals entering the space, add a code for the top buzzer(inside of the space).